Pinot CountryOrganizations (8)

Bureau Interprofessionnel des Vins de Bourgogne

Burgundy's trade body: the growers, the négociants and the appellation statistics, in one office in Beaune.

A charitable hospital founded in 1443 that has been given vineyard land for five and a half centuries and sells the wine at auction every November to pay for the medicine.

Institut national de l'origine et de la qualité

The French body that defines appellations, polices their boundaries and decides what may be planted, at what density, and how much may be picked.

Foundation Plant Services, UC Davis, FPS

The UC Davis programme that holds, tests and distributes certified grapevine material in the United States. The numbers on American clones — UCD 4, UCD 2A — are its numbers.

The state commission that funds Oregon's viticulture research and publishes the harvest statistics this site quotes.

The county association that runs the tasting weekends and publishes the maps for the Santa Maria Valley, the Sta. Rita Hills and everything between.

The body at the Santa Maria Valley Chamber of Commerce that defines the local barbecue and certifies places serving it: beef rolled in salt, pepper and garlic, cooked on skewers over coals of red oak native to the…

Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau

The US Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau: it rules on AVA petitions, writes them into 27 CFR part 9, and approves every label that goes on a bottle.